Discussion point of life

[omoni]

i imagine this is an extremely oversaturated question on here but i've been thinking a lot recently.

i dont believe that life is pointless, but there's also no point. if you understand me.

if life was truly pointless, you'd be able to assign whatever point or objective you'd like to it, right? but that's only somewhat true. and only somewhat possible. why should others and i work from birth to death? for what? money? material assets? that wont matter when im inevitably dead. my suicidal tendencies (few and far between) mostly come from a place of pure philosophy instead of an internal sadness. granted, i guess i do self loathe to a degree. but the afterlife cant be worse than the life we're currently expected to live. and im almost positive. i'd love to see everybody's views on this.

thank you for reading

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

nothing matters. what's going to matter in 150 years, 1000 years, or in a trillion years? nothing

but to me it matters for me to avoid constant unbearable pain.

the only meaning i see is for me to avoid constant unbearable pain. then for me to avoid any pain , suffering , problems anything i don't like .

everything else is meaningless.

a life is so fleeting. how fast did the last 5 years fly by? so that makes all these things they repeatedly tell us are so important, meaningful , must do, enjoyable etc have even less meaning.

the horror is that a few seconds or a few minutes of the worst constant pain can seem to last forever and that is what i want to avoid at all costs. i don't care about doing the so called enjoyable garbage . and plus i'll be dead very soon as i explained life flys by so fast ( how fast did the last 2 years, 5 years etc fly by? ) but i can't go through any really bad pain , extreme suffering or extreme torture.

there's much more to this.

 

[cacowads]

hi, currently at the same thoughts as well. I've honestly no idea what's the point of life- particularly even recreation too. Considering that the world isn't gonna run out of humans (in fact it's the inverse) what's even the point of continuing some sort of biological self replication. I mean, it could be said for everything in life as well. Why do bacteria or amoebas (especially disease) infect and replicate only for them to do the same thing over and over again, there is no inherent point. They are pushed by some weird biological mechanism that exists without subconscious.
i don't want to sound very rambly, but i find it interesting too that we humans are basically the only creatures to question why we even exist, why we strive to and what's the point of it all.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I think we tend to assign a point to life as a coping mechanism. It can be useful to motivate us if we believe something holds value. Like you say though, I don't think life itself has a universal value we can all agree on. Some people find meaning in pursuing a career, others find value in trying to be a good person and improving the life of others. Others may enjoy living hedonistically.

I suppose two common things I hear are that the point of life is to figure out what the point is. Again- I think that's useful on an individual basis- if we are able to find something meaningful. I think it makes it easier to live when we have that.

The meaning of my life for a long time- felt like it was pursuing a creative career. It's not that I particularly expected others to agree with that choice or, to even value my work. But, deep down to me- it felt worthwhile to be alive in order to follow that path.

The other thing I hear a lot is: The point of life is to find happiness. Again- I suppose it's about trying to make our time here as painless as possible.

If the biological point of life is to stay alive then- finding something meaningful (to us) to do plus- preferably being happy about it- will make that experience easier.

Of course- we are equally free to take a nihilistic perspective. Sometimes, I think enough shit in life will push us into feeling like nothing is meaningful or worth our effort. I don't think that's necessarily a wrong perspective, although it likely makes life harder to endure. Because ultimately- living requires maintenance. It's a miserable experience when we hate, resent and see no point to everything.

 

[hurb]

u are very close to being honest with urself. the moment u get rid of the concept of the afterlife.
other than forming thoughts we are no different from animals. i dont see people wondering if the cow they ate is going to heaven.
the afterlife is just an existential coping mechanism our ancestors made up to survive. u could argue it's natural selection's way to keep us alive

 

[FuneralCry]

I could never see any point to any of this, to me existing will always just be dreadful, torturous suffering all for the sake of it with no limit as to how much one can be tortured and it's all so terrible and cruel, to suffer in this existence is just always a terrible mistake to me.

Existence is a mistake that just causes all this cruelty, torture and suffering harming existing beings, existing to me is just waiting to die, the fact that this existence was imposed at all is the most terrible, devastating tragedy, all that imposing existence ever does is just cause harm, existence itself will always be true problem to me, it's horrific how existing beings are tortured in agony every second as a result of the abomination of existence, all I want is to erase this existence so it's like I never suffered at all.






















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[itsgone2]

It seems pointless. I hate it. I've been suicidal multiple times in life. What's the point of that? Once was because of a surgeon screwing me up. What was the point of that? Everything else only I'm to blame. I was born with some ability, but I wasted it. I went over a decade, just being a horrible person and making tons of mistakes. I see it all clearly now. What's the point of that? Who cares now? And I was on a path of healing. I was on a path of fixing my wrongs to the best of my ability. But I needed my job. And now my company is selling and it's going to go away. I had about a year where I realized what was wrong and started to live properly. One. One year of mostly normality in an otherwise lifetime of pain and sadness. I deserve no pity but it's still a shame and I see no point

I really thought there was something behind all this. There was something more. I guess it doesn't matter now. If I get the guts to finish this off, then I'm I suppose I'll find out.

 

[meddle]

its the same for me. i came to the conclusion that life is absurd and meaningless. humans can just make up their own meanings and hold on to them. i made up my meanings, but they still kinda disappoint me. so idk...